Translation:Before we were always losing the keys.

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Does this mean that "in the past, we lost our keys, but no longer" (eg "when we were kids we would always lose our keys") or "some thing I am talking about happened before we started to always lose our keys" (eg "I am senile now, I liked things better before I was always losing my keys.")

I wrote: "first we always lost the keys", but despite the fact that it ws marked as correct I thing that phrase is senseless! In this case maybe the only valid answer should be "before, we always used to lose the keys", or do you have any other option with the same meaning?

Should this sentence not be in Passato prossimo.
I thought that when we use "sempre" in the sentence, Imperfetto can be used only when there is no rare connection with the present, and here "we used to lose keys, but now we don't".